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In a groundbreaking joint effort, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Miami and Florida law enforcement agencies arrested nearly 800 illegal immigrants during the first four days of Operation Tidal Wave, a massive, multi-agency immigration enforcement crackdown. Fox News obtained information on some of the ICE arrests from the ongoing operation, which include a convicted Colombian murderer, alleged MS-13 and 18th Street gang members and a Russian with an Interpol Red Notice for manslaughter. Jose Sanchez Reyes, a Colombian illegal immigrant who entered the U.S. as a getaway, was convicted of homicide in his home country. Rafael Juarex Cabrera, a...

A total of 114 illegal migrants were dramatically arrested after cops swooped in and busted a nightclub in Colorado in the early hours of the morning. The Rocky Mountain Division of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) led a multi-agency enforcement operation alongside local police and federal agents at 3am Sunday, the agency said. Dozens of armed personnel were waiting outside the doors as partyers fled from the building - while women in dresses and heels looked bewildered at the ordeal. Another woman, who was on the phone at the time, dropped to the ground while cops pointed guns in her...

Indiana University has faced criticism after abruptly firing Professor XiaoFeng Wang on the same day FBI agents executed search warrants at his home. The university also removed the couple’s online profiles, causing concern among academics regarding their due process. Federal authorities have confirmed the investigation is ongoing. Wang has brought approximately $23 million in federal grants to the university. However, Wang was barred from his office and denied access to university resources prior to his dismissal. Veracity IIR president Doug Kouns said, “He’s right there on the cutting edge of this kind of research as far as data privacy, cybersecurity...

Federal immigration enforcement agents arrested over three dozen illegal aliens who they say submitted fraudulent documents to illegally gain employment at a roofing company in northern Washington state. A total of 37 illegal aliens were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Mt. Baker Roofing warehouse in Bellingham, Washington, near the Canadian border. ICE spokesman David Yost said that the federal immigration enforcement agents carried out the raid “based on an ongoing criminal investigation into the unlawful employment of aliens without legal work authorization in violation of federal...

A DHS official was placed on leave and may have their security clearance revoked for ‘accidentally’ adding a reporter to an email chain about an upcoming ICE raids in greater Denver area. According to NBC News, a DHS worker included a Washington-based reporter in an email chain detailing an upcoming ICE raids back in January. The email did not include classified material, however, the information was still considered sensitive because it detailed time, location and target of raids. The DHS worker called the reporter and told them that they were ‘accidentally’ added to the email. The reporter promised to disclose...

Imagine waking up at dawn to six armed officers storming your home—not for drugs, not for weapons, but for posting a meme. That’s exactly what happened in northwest Germany, and CBS was there, cameras rolling, treating it like some noble act of justice. This isn’t journalism. This is collaboration with tyranny. The suspect’s crime? Sharing a so-called "racist" cartoon online. German authorities, operating under their draconian hate speech laws, seized his laptop and cellphone, claiming these devices were used to spread "hate." Fifty homes were raided that day. Fifty people had their doors kicked in. For words. Germany’s speech laws,...

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg NEW: 60 Minutes joins German police as they raid a man’s home for sharing a “racist” cartoon online. JD Vance was 100% right about Germany and the buffoons in the media acted like he was crazy. 60 Minutes: “Is it a crime to insult people online?” German prosectors: “Yes” 60 Minutes: “Is someone committing a crime if they repost a lie?” German prosecutors: “Yes.”

Newly obtained emails reveal that former president Joe Biden's White House was involved from the beginning in the investigation into the classified documents found at Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago. Trump has been under intense investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The official narrative suggested that Trump had retained sensitive materials without authorization, which led to an FBI raid at his Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022. However, these new revelations confirm coordination between the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and senior officials before the official referral to the Department of...

Two Russian colonels are reported to have fallen out of windows in the space of two days, adding to a growing list of high-ranking officials who have died in mysterious circumstances since Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine began. Artur Pryakhin, 56, the head of a regional branch of Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) in the Republic of Karelia, died after falling from a fifth floor window of an office building at around noon on February 4. Local authorities said he left a suicide note in his office in which he apologized to his wife, asked his loved ones for forgiveness,...

Federal immigration officers kicked down doors, hauling away migrants in a well-known Tren de Aragua gang stronghold in Colorado in a pre-dawn raid, DailyMail.com can exclusively confirm. Just after 6 a.m., agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on the Whispering Pines Apartments in Aurora, Colorado - one of three apartment buildings taken over by the gang. With a warrant in hand, ICE went door-to-door, tagging doors with red tape where no one answered and using green tape where agents did make contact with someone. Six men were handcuffed and taken away, according to on-the-ground sources. In recent days, ICE...

Mark "Choppa" Manley is a gun owner, a gun collector and a Second Amendment advocate who has more than 70 legally owned firearms stored in a gun safe at his Baltimore home.All of his firearms comply with both federal law and the laws of Maryland. He is always very careful about that.Manley works as an intervention specialist for his local school district. His day begins early and ends late, usually around 7 p.m., because he also coaches girls' flag football.Manley and his wife, who did not want her first name used in this story, get up early for their jobs....

Thousands of ICE officers have been dispatched to the San Diego border crossing as they prepare to take '100,000 immigrants' back to Mexico and Central America in one of the biggest migrant raids in recent times. Marines have already descended on the area in an attempt to secure the crossing as President Trump ramped up his promise of cracking down on illegal immigration. Around 1,500 active duty troops were deployed to the nearly 2,000-mile border this week, including 500 Marines from Camp Pendleton in California. DailyMail.com can now reveal that they have been joined with what has been described as...

New York City residents in Hispanic and black communities that supported President Trump in huge numbers in the 2024 election hailed Tuesday’s local immigration raids that nabbed scores of suspected heinous criminals. Starting in the Bronx — where Trump’s support surged 35% between 2020 and 2024 — heavily armed federal immigration agents stormed through the city, targeting migrants with warrants for murder, kidnapping and other heinous crimes, police sources told The Post. Among those arrested was Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco, 25, an alleged ringleader of the notorious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua who immigration officers took into custody at an Ogden...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined federal authorities Tuesday morning for the first deportation raids in New York City under President Trump’s clampdown before lauding ICE for getting the “dirtbags off the streets” just days after she was sworn into office. The newly confirmed DHS secretary boasted about the successful early morning operation, and shared images of herself wearing a protective ICE vest and surrounded by heavily armed officers, in a series of posts on X. Noem, 53, later shared footage of one of the first raids, saying it showed “a criminal alien with kidnapping, assault & burglary charges” and...

ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — The Drug Enforcement Administration detained roughly 50 people in Adams County early Sunday morning at what the special agent in charge called an invitation-only Tren de Aragua party. Denver7 Investigates' cameras exclusively captured video around 5:45 a.m. along the 6600 block of Federal Boulevard in Adams County, showing agents rounding up people and escorting them onto a bus. Most of the people detained are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. According to Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen, the DEA was executing a federal search warrant at a vacant property where a...

FBI agents raided the law offices of immigration lawyer and Central Falls Municipal Court Judge Joseph Molina Flynn in Providence, Rhode Island, Thursday, though the reason for the raid has not yet been disclosed. An FBI spokesperson confirmed that a court authorized the raid, though the spokesperson declined to comment further. Molina Flynn’s office remained silent about the raid, declining to answer calls and emails from Fox News. WPRI 12 reported that a warrant was executed at the office on Dorrance Street, and video of the warrant execution showed a line of black SUVs outside the building with agents walking...

Fox News reporters embedded with U.S. Customs and Immigration (ICE) raids witnessed a stunning series of arrests in Boston on Wednesday, where violent, illegal immigrant criminals vowed to go down fighting. Video footage of raids in the Hispanic enclave of East Boston captured the dramatic scene as MS-13 gang members, murderers convicted abroad, and individuals with Interpol Red Notices were apprehended. As he was being handcuffed and loaded into an ICE vehicle, a man with 17 criminal convictions yelled he was “never going back to Haiti.” “F*** Trump, you feel me? Yo, Biden forever bro!” the Haitian man yelled in...

Ukrainian police conducted nationwide raids on draft dodger gangs on Friday as the country battles to generate enough conscripted soldiers to keep its military competitive in the war against Russia without radically widening recruitment criteria. The National Police of Ukraine said they conducted “over 200 searches” of gangs assisting illegal border crossings by adult Ukrainian males, who have been banned from leaving the country since the beginning of Russia’s invasion in 2022. The searches “at the premises of persons involved in illegal transactions” took place in 19 of 27 Ukrainian regions, police said Friday. According to the AFP news agency,...

There are a lot of people currently holding down jobs in the Biden administration that we would like to see gone. A new president is coming in a week, and as a new broom sweeps clean, soon-to-be President Trump's second term promises to sweep very clean indeed. One person we'll be glad to see gone is FBI Director Chris Wray, architect of the infamous Mar-a-Lago raid, when FBI agents rifled through the Trump's personal items, evidently expecting to find classified documents hidden among Melania's lingerie. Well, he's leaving now - and trying to spin his legacy as the unemployment line...

The FBI seized Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan’s phone and electronics early Wednesday morning — just a week after the election-betting platform successfully predicted President-elect Donald Trump’s win, The Post has learned. The 26-year-old entrepreneur was woken up at 6:00 a.m. in his Soho home by law US enforcement officers who demanded his phone and electronics, a source close to the matter told The Post. It’s “grand political theater at its worst,” the source told The Post. “They could have asked his lawyer for any of these things. Instead, they staged a so-called raid so they can leak it to the...